The Indian men’s badminton team suffered a 1-3 defeat to formidable Denmark in the quarter-finals to bow out of the Thomas Cup here on Friday. Only the pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy could post a win. They beat Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 21-15, 17-21, 21-18.

Kidambi Srikanth was outplayed by his World No. 2 opponent  Viktor Axelsen 21-12, 21-13. World No. 3 Anders Antonsen easily beat B Sai Praneeth 21-8, 21-15. The pair of M R Arjun and Dhruv Kapila then lost 16-21, 9-21 to Mathias Christiansen and Frederik Sogaard.